Unable to find JsonFormat class in Android

[sourcesoftankit]

I am using "Protobuf" library in android, and My business logic required to convert Proto format to Json so i need JsonFormat class for that but i am not able to find the "com.google.protobuf.util.JsonFormat" class and even com.google.protobuf.util package also.

I am using lite version of Protobuf and My gradle entry for protobuf is

 apply plugin: 'com.google.protobuf'

 protobuf {
protoc {
    artifact = 'com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.0.0'
}
plugins {
    javalite {
        artifact = 'com.google.protobuf:protoc-gen-javalite:3.0.0'
    }
}
generateProtoTasks {
    all().each { task ->
        task.builtins {
            remove java
        }
        task.plugins {
             javalite { }
           }
       }
   }
}

  dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.1.0'
    implementation 'com.google.protobuf:protobuf-lite:3.0.0'

}

And in my project level gradle:

   dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0'
    classpath 'com.google.protobuf:protobuf-gradle-plugin:0.8.3'
  }

[ejona86]

This has nothing to do with this plugin, since com.google.protobuf.util isn't generated code.

But in short, com.google.protobuf.util is in a different artifact, protobuf-java-util. And it doesn't work with protobuf-lite. Using the JSON conversion is unsupported on Android, as Lite does not include the necessary descriptors (as they would increase the apk size too much).

[sourcesoftankit]

Thanks @ejona86 for the quick revert.
There is any alternate to convert protobuf to JSON or existing POJO in android.

[ejona86]

I'm not aware of any, but I'm not in-the-know enough to say if someone else has made something. We tend to think that conversions like that shouldn't be happening in an Android app (due to app size), so we design the system differently.

[cepages]

@sourcesoftankit did you find any alternative to convert the protobuf generated to JSON?

[cepages]

If it helps to anyone. I've described the problem and the solution in a thread in google forums.

Solution, using protobuf-java instead of javalite

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/protobuf/EC2TtPixCFY

[rakshitsoni02]

is there any good solution except using protobuf-java instead of javalite?